Table of Contents: The flirt's tragedy

Main Author:	Kaye, Richard A., 1960-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
Subjects:	Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Influence. English fiction > History and criticism. > 19th century Courtship in literature. English fiction > History and criticism. > 20th century Women and literature > English-speaking countries. American fiction > History and criticism. Man-woman relationships in literature. Mate selection in literature. Seduction in literature. Desire in literature. Women in literature.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10495573

Table of Contents:

Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character
The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative
George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief
Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire
"Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.